Associate Director for Computing and Data Services,Prairie Research Institute
Associate Director for Computing and Data Services,Prairie Research Institute
One of the major goals of the new IT strategic plan is changing how we work together in the IT community. For the last two years a voluntary consortium of Application Development teams has been building the relationships, standards, and common practices to enable that future. Come learn about our efforts and the recently published […]
The Web Implementation Guidelines Group has been working on several efforts to make building websites on campus easier for everyone. Drupal is a popular CMS on campus and now it’s easier to use than ever. Come learn how to use this easy to deploy, campus branded Drupal solution and what features it brings. Also learn […]
At the last IT Pro Forum, you heard about the new campus website brand standards. Now hear about the new developments that have happened in the last 6 months. Many new features, improved designs, and more WordPress theme options and a new Drupal theme and framework. Also learn about the webtheme.illinois.edu website where you can […]
Are you new to campus? This session can help you connect to 1000 IT Pro’s working across campus who have similar challenges as you and who you can collaborate with to resolve them. Join us for an engaging discussion about Communities of Practice, including how they’re leveraged today, how we could leverage them more in […]
There are many great committees and groups on campus that have been formed with formal charters and pre-negotiated deliverables. However, sometimes you need to bring people together quickly to work on a problem and create a solution. The Web Implementation Guidelines Group (WIGG) is a group that was formed completely organically and has now helped […]
There are a large variety of web publishing situations across campus today. With the push from the Chancellor last year to adopt the new branding standards, many units are searching for a way to bring their websites into compliance. The WIGG efforts have created branded themes for WordPress and Drupal and made those available to […]
The colleges of ACES and LAS have been using Drupal to power our websites for many years. We’ve pooled our experience to create a system that can be deployed to any hosting solution (including campus cPanel), supports the new campus brand standards out of the box, and is built with customization and expansion in mind. […]
ATLAS is in the middle of a move to CMS driven unit websites. Learn how we are using Drupal with a consistent design and navigation structure to improve LAS websites. With departments covering a wide range of subject matter, faculty and student counts, and available resources, we maintain flexibility within our framework to bring added […]
Many IT services at the University start out as small installations serving a few users. As services grow, they give up some of the run-and-gun approach of an entrepreneurial environment to gain the stability and service level of an enterprise service. We will discuss challenges and breakthroughs encountered while changing infrastructure, development, support, and culture […]